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On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 07:38:37PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > It has happened three times now and on all occasions, I was untarring a > > huge file on an XFS partition. I assume the problem is something to do > > with VM. The machine has 1GB of RAM which should be plenty. For the > ... > You probably should apply this patch to tell us where the allocation > failures are coming from. Make sure that CONFIG_KALLSYMS is enabled in > kernel config. We do have known issues in XFS on 2.6 with handling certain VM allocation failures -- maybe hitting that here. Christoph has been looking at making XFS do a better job there; __GFP_NOFAIL allocations failing seem to be the worst issue for us - on the occasions I've hit that though, its always immediately fatal. cheers. -- Nathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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